water deities
vsauce! kevin here. spit out your gum, put down that toad andfollow a rainbow to the wishing well. swallowed chewing gum doesn’t stay in yourstomach for seven years. since your teeth don’t break down gum like food, fears arosethat stomachs had similar trouble processing it. but it really just passes through yoursystem like the outside fiber shell of corn. water deities, swallowing several pieces of gum a day, however,could develop a bezoar - a hard mass that clogs the digestive tract. in severe cases,surgery is needed to remove the blockage, and the disimpaction procedure is describedin a medical journal as like a taffy-pull. touching a toad will not give you warts. toadsare covered in wart-like bumps that help them blend into their environments, but warts onhumans are a virus. the problem was that no one before 1892 knew what a virus was, sothe transmission of warts through toad-handling was a common explanation. methods for gettingrid of warts often involved rubbing something on